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Brian Brown, GSG Kingpin Cleared of Charges In GSU Search
posted (December 2, 2016)
He's a notorious street figure, but 40-year-old Brian Brown walked free from 8 criminal charges today.

In May of 2012, the GSU raided Brown's home on Jimmy Dyer Avenue and found found 307 grammes of crack cocaine, 17 grams of cocaine, a bong used for smoking weed, along with several "catches" of weed, and a bullet proof vest.

Brown wasn't there when -police turned his house upside down. Brown eluded arrest for days after the search. But was it his house indeed? That's the question that was put before the court during the trial. The sign on the front said Brown's Enterprises, but Brown claimed he didn't live at the address in question and at the time of the search he had no control of the premises.

In his ruling, Magistrate Carlon Mendoza said, quote, "The fact that…Brown was not present when the GSU did the search brings doubt in my mind. .." He added, quote, "The GSU should have done a sting operation to make sure that no one else lived there except for Brown." He even noted that even though Brown's expired passport and birth paper were found there, he is not sure that someone else wasn't occupying the house at the time.

With that he pronounced Brian Brown "Not guilty," of all charges.

Brown, who was badly burnt in 2015, left court a free man after a trial which lasted 7 months. He was represented by two attorneys. He is considered to be a major figure in a Belize City gang.

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